DG · Consumer Defensive
What a holder would want to know before buying DG: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 33% above the lowest point of the past year and 19% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 69% of days and more expensive on 31%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 50% of days.
1% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more 5 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 74%; the longest took 18 months to get back to its peak. 4 of 5 have recovered so far.
It is in one now: 51% below the Oct 2022 peak.
Dollar General Corporation · Consumer Defensive · Discount Stores · a large company worth $28.07B
Dollar General Corporation, a discount retailer, provides various merchandise products in the southern, southwestern, midwestern, and eastern United States. It offers consumable products, including paper towels, bath…
revenue profit
Sales of $42.72B in 2026, with $1.51B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 4 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Would need about 9.1 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.
You pay $17 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $15 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 1.90% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Oct 6.
31 analysts: 13 say buy, 17 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $141.45 (range $90.00–$176.00).
Insiders made 0 purchases and 1 sale in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.
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